Originally Posted by
deltajuliet
Hope you put IAH 1st.
I finally added up my logbook today, and it occurred to me, AQP is once a year, right? Suppose you don't get six instrument approaches in actual or a hold for six months, what's the deal with instrument currency? Or is 121 a totally separate animal?
On a related note, during training the sim instructors never put stuff in people's logbooks, just the training folders. Would those training folders be considered sufficient record keeping of 3 takeoffs/landings in preceding 90 days?
This is stuff that should have been covered during Indoc, but since they shortened it, it got left out. 121 is a totally separate animal. 61.57(e)(2) exempts 121 PICs from any of the 61.57 recency of experience requirements. 121 has its own rules. A couple of things to note on this point though. 1) you are not required to be instrument current as an FO, only the PIC needs to be instrument current. 2) The exemption for 121 PICs only applies to operations conducting for the certificate holder (121 or 91).
In other words, so long as you complete all required 121 recurrent events, you are qualified to sit right seat in a Mesa CRJ. However, this may not keep you current for your own recreational part 91 flying you may do.
The FAA never requires that all of your "logbook" be kept in one neatly bound little book. So long as you can produce the appropriate records when required, they don't care how you keep it. As a result your 121 training records count as a part of your logbook. I hope you made or got a copy of your records after you were done with IOE, before your IOE check airman sent your training folder in. If not, that's ok, you can always get them later, but I always like to have a copy for myself. I also made copies for all the people I signed off for IOE so they would have them.
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